New Homepage and Widgets

Ever since I joined the Ohloh team, I’ve wanted to update the homepage. But first, I felt we needed to provide great features and improve functionality for our users before working on “look and feel” aspects of the site.

Now nearly a year into Ohloh’s development here, I feel the time was right to showcase these new features.

Although the homepage is self-explanatory, there are a few items I wish to call out:

Data Ticker

We call out the follow stats:

Number of open source projects we track

Number of source control repositories we track

Number of lines of code we track – 15 Billion(!)

Number of open source contributions – 1 Million(!)

Rotating Panel

Here we showcase our most popular features:

Review Ohloh’s code analysis reports

Compare projects side-by-side to make educated decisions

Discover how much each developer is contributing to a project

And compare up to 93(!) different languages

Most Popular/Active

The bottom section of the new homepage shows which projects get the most commits recently, who has been the most active contributor recently, and what projects Ohloh users have report using, where recently = past 30 days.

New Widgets

As with the new homepage, we’ve made some updates to other aspects of the site’s look and feel, including widgets.

We’re really excited with our new homepage. It was a team (and extended team) effort. But if you have suggestions for improvements for the homepage, widgets, or any other aspect of the site, please let us know!